St.+Lucia;Elisa+Velasquez-10D

= St. Lucia = ==== St. Lucia is a country located in the Caribbean right beside the island Martinique. As it is said St. Lucia is an island formed by an volcano explosion that happened long time ago. As we can see in its geographical form St. Lucia as a big chain of mountains crossing the entire island, which having those island across the island there is a lot of fertile places were farmers can grow crops. ====

**__St. Lucia Information:__**

==== Population: St. Lucia´s population it´s big, it has a population of approximately 180,000. This population was last gotten from 2011. In fact of this population, we can see that it had increased by the amount of emigrants that the country have been having since the early 1990´s. In St. Lucia we can see that there is a population growth rate of 1.5 which has been stable since the past years. This population has stable because there has been a percentage of people going out and in the country which has cause the population rate to maintain which means neither increasing or decreasing. ====

==== Birth Rate: 14.42/1,000 population. What we can see about the annual birth rate of St. Lucia is low. We can see that in comparison of the amount of people leaving in St. Lucia which cause the annual birth rate to maintain and be low. ====

==== Death Rat e:7.1 deaths/1,000 population. What we can see about in the annual death in St. Lucia is that there is a low death rate. We can tell that it is a pacific country which there is not a large amount of violence projected. As we know about death rate of this country we can tell it as a safe country were there is no delinquency. ====

==== Net migration rate: - 3.54 migrant/ 1,000 population. We can see that in this country there is a few people going out of the country. People who are born on the country are more likely to stay in it because there is a lot of attractions on the island and it is a tourist place. What we can see in these country since it is a tourist area there is a lot of emigrants coming into the country. ====

==== Infant Mortality rate: There is a total of 12.39 deaths/1,000 live births. As we can see from this information is that in this country there is a high amount of children dying. From the information we can tell that in this country is not a complete developed country which we can estimate that there is not enough sanitation in the rural areas which causes kids to die before growing. ====

==== Life Expectancy: There is a life expectancy of 77.04 which is divided into two which we can see that women live until they reach the age of 79.88 and men live until they reach the age of 74.34. From this information we infer that in this country people live for a long period of time, which we can tell that they have a good nutrition and take care of themselves. In fact we can tell that they need a little more nutrition so that there life time can expand more and be able to live more years. ====

==== The doubling time of St. Lucia is 46 years which is a low amount of time to the country too double its birth rate. As we can see in St. Lucia there is a low percent of birth rate which means that it will take a short time to double its population. ====

==== In St. Lucia there is a low nutrition in some places of the island also there is a high need of materials in some places. As we can see this country is a LEDC country because it is more than the half of the country suffering of needs. We can tell that in this country there is only a good healthcare and nutrition in the urban areas were there is a lot of movement of jobs especially the tourist areas. In this country half of the people work on tourism which is the major job work on the country. As we can see the people in this country bases on looking for jobs in the urban areas. One of the major problems these country has is the missing of health care, which there is a low amount of places were people can go and receive medical care. ==== Completed by: Elisa Michelle Velásquez References:
 * __ http://www.indexmundi.com/saint_lucia/life_expectancy_at_birth.html __
 * __ https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/st.html __
 * __ http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107931.html __
 * __ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Saint_Lucia#Death_rate __